February is Lisa Moore's heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel
Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Caribbean
and Canadian region. Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig
sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February
follows the life of Helen O'Mara, widowed by the accident, as she
continuously spirals from the present day back to that devastating and
transformative winter. After overcoming the hardships of raising four
children as a single parent, Helen's strength and calculated positivity
fool everyone into believing that she's pushed through the paralyzing
grief of losing her spouse. But in private, Helen has obsessively
maintained a powerful connection to her deceased husband. When Helen's
son unexpectedly returns home with life-changing news, her secret world
is irrevocably shaken, and Helen is quickly forced to come to terms with
her inability to lay the past to rest.
An unforgettable glimpse into the complex love and cauterizing grief
that run through all of our lives, February tenderly investigates how
memory knits together the past and present, and pinpoints the very human
need to always imagine a future, no matter how fragile.
